What’s Wrong with The Western Star’s Dave Kearsey?
ByDave Kearsey of The Western Star continually amazes me. Here is the sports editor of our beloved newspaper asking “What’s wrong with the Corner Brook Royals?” in his most recent article and his conclusion – “There is nothing wrong with the Corner Brook Royals”.
His thoughts that the regular season means nothing reminds me of a statement made about the Titanic before she set sail – “She’s unsinkable” – but I guess we know how that story ended right?
Dave Kearsey should know better. Here is a gentleman that has played competitive sports all his life and he wants the readers to believe that the Corner Brook Royals players don’t “try” each regular season game because the games mean nothing?
Anyone who has played sports at any level will tell you that they go out to win. They give it their all and they want to walk away with the victory. It isn’t about how you played the game, as Dave apparently wants us to believe. It is about winning and the Corner Brook Royals go out game after game trying to win.
There is no “conspiracy” in how the league is setup; there is no half-hearted attempt to go through the motions during regular season and then turning it on for the playoffs.
Obviously, that isn’t the case is it now Mr. Keasey? The Royals got dominated by the Clarenville Caribous during the first two games of their playoff series. The Royals’ players obviously weren’t going through the motions. They played and were beaten by a better team who had concentrated on improving their game throughout the regular season!
Strangely enough, Dave Kearsey wants us to believe that there was nothing wrong with the Corner Brook Royals but suggests that Terry Ryan and Morgan Warren don’t show more than they had in the regular season “this series would be over in a hurry”. Obviously if these two star players on the Corner Brook Royals were not performing there is something wrong with the Corner Brook Royals!
Does anyone honestly believe that the Corner Brook Royals will beat the Clarenville Caribous?
Yes, I do agree that the “unexpected” could be the Corner Brook Royals stunning the Caribous as Dave so colourfully puts it in his article. It could also mean the Toronto Maple Leafs is going to win the Stanley Cup this season.
It just isn’t happening Dave.
As we know, the Titanic did sink and to be perfectly honest, most fans around town do expect the Corner Brook Royals to be swept this weekend.
4 Comments
February 15th, 2010 at 5:02 pm
Will this is one guy that don`t think that the Royals are going to roll over and die .. I do not think that there will be a sweep
February 15th, 2010 at 6:23 pm
I don’t think they will roll over, but I do think they are outclassed this series.
It will be a major surprise if they win their series.
February 18th, 2010 at 9:05 am
Dave is just newfoundland’s version of Slapshot’s Dickie Dunn,
“he was just trying to capture the spirit of things.”
February 22nd, 2010 at 6:48 pm
Dave Kearsey is an absolutely horrible sports writer. Full stop.
He titles a story “What’s Wrong with the Royals?”, and then concludes that there’s nothing wrong with the team??? How about the fact that they couldn’t sort their goaltending out all season long, even though they had the luxury of having three goalies at their disposal? None of the netminders knew from one game to the next who was starting. That doesn’t really instill a lot of confidence in any one of them.
What about a lack of defence?? The Royals had to move one of their top fowards (Steve North) back on the blueline for the last part of the season because they didn’t have any defence. What about losing Steve Hynes, who ended up being a pretty good player with the Red Wings once he got off the Royals’ sinking ship?
And let’s not forget that the Royals finished dead last in the standings again this year. For Kearsey to say that the players just don’t give a darn about the regular season is a complete and total joke. Tell that to the guys who wake up Monday morning with cuts, bruises and aching muscles. They don’t give a darn about the regular season?!?!?
For a guy who’s got a background in hockey, Kearsey sure doesn’t seem like he knows much about the game!
Pathetic!